Kurt Cobain and his team also had reservations over how well their visceral rock’n’roll would translate in such a stripped-back, low-watt setting. “Most bands would treat them like rock shows – play their hits like it was Madison Square Garden – except with acoustic guitars!” “We’d seen other Unplugged shows and didn’t like many of them,” drummer Dave Grohl later told Rolling Stone. Initially, the Seattle grungestars were in two minds over whether they should even accept their invitation to appear on MTV Unplugged, not least because they felt the program’s format simply wasn’t for them. “We’d seen other Unplugged shows and didn’t like them” While this lofty praise is wholly justified, the story of Nirvana’s esteemed MTV Unplugged performance is that of a band snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. The statistics speak for themselves, and the album has continued to receive accolades ever since its initial release, on November 1, 1994, with The Atlantic’s retrospective critique even referring to it as “one of the greatest live albums ever” in 2013.
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